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Gary Burton has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical…
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I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar…
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional…
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I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other…
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally,…
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I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.
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I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players…
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I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla…
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with…
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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.
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Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with…
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We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say,…
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I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the…
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